A thought experiment on the "true" path

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problem there is how many are true believers. In reality my opinion is most people (80%) just culturally adhere to the religion they were raised in, 15% believe but marginally practice and 5% are hardcore practitioners. Would that be enough to give a statistical significance?

I believe in the bible it hints at the amount of people going to be save (144,000, number uncounted, etc.). Are there any sura's or hadiths that give an insight into this number?
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I dont think its possible to have statistics on what is the percentage or number of true believers versus nominal believers. Belief is a matter of the heart, and only Allah knows what is in the heart. Islam does not give any precise number of people who are "saved", but there are many ahadith sayings of the Nabi (alaihi salatu wa salam) that his ummah will be very large in number, and will make up half of the people of paradise. And seventy thousand people from this ummah will enter paradise without a reckoning. They are the extremely righteous and pious believers possessing perfect and sincere faith.
 
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Well, if you have a population made up of of non-believers who state they are believers and true believers you could still have a statistically significant deviation from other religious/philosophical populations as the population in the others are ALL wrong. So the believing segment may still give that population the statistical significance. The problem there is how many are true believers. In reality my opinion is most people (80%) just culturally adhere to the religion they were raised in, 15% believe but marginally practice and 5% are hardcore practitioners. Would that be enough to give a statistical significance?
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perhaps, I'm not to sure about that.

I believe in the bible it hints at the amount of people going to be save (144,000, number uncounted, etc.). Are there any sura's or hadiths that give an insight into this number?
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Yes I remember reading one, I'm looking it up but can't find it...
 

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